No, I don’t question your credentials. Not at all. Newt is no global warming Marxist, but he owns intellectual curiosity. I’m grateful for you and your expertise in fighting against global warming power hungry b@$+@^&$.
I'm concerned that that's not it. There is MAJOR corporate campaign money available to those who bow to the AGW idol, but more important to Newt, there is peer approval. He is an academic at heart after all. I see those two routes plus the, 'well it wouldn't hurt and things would be "cleaner"' rationalization given the other two influences.